'Their culture keeps changing over time — but signalling among animals remains honest'
Stephen Nowicki is professor of biology at Duke University.
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Stephen Nowicki is professor of biology at Duke University.
A certain bird species in Africa is known for leading honey hunters to bee nests. Click to read more.
<p>African honeyguide birds understand and respond to the culturally distinct signals made by local human honey hunters, suggesting cultural coevolution between species, according to a new study. Although the animal kingdom is full of interspecific mutualism, systems in which humans successfully cooperate with wild animals are rare. One such relationship involves the greater honeyguide (<em>Indicator indicator)</em>, a small African bird known to lead humans to wild bees’ nests. Humans open the nests to collect honey, and the honeyguides eat the exposed beeswax. Hum...
Evidence for a relationship between bird vocal learning and cognitive prowess has been mixed. Now, a massive new study confirms they are linked. (
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